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British foreign secretary David Milliband spoke to a group of reporters at the New America Foundation this morning. The talk was ostensibly about new media strategies and diplomacy (Milliband blogs—the unthinkably modern equivalent of Hillary Clinton trying out Twitter), but quickly turned to the hot-button geostrategic issues of the day. Moderator Steve Coll, president of New America, asked Milliband about the ongoing violent conflict between the insurgent Tamil minority and the Sri Lankan government...